The North Staffordshire Field Club was an organisation founded in 1865 to study the natural history , geology , industrial history , folklore and local history of North Staffordshire , England. Its establishing president from 1865-70 was industrialist and banker James Bateman FRS.
6-496: The organisation produced its first printed book, Annual addresses, papers, etc. Author, North Staffordshire Field Club , in 1875, having previously published a short Annual Report for members. A history of the early years was published by R. Simms in 1886 as Coming of age of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club and Archaeological Society, 1865-1885: chronological history and bibliography of
12-407: A non-profit organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a scientific organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This England -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Staffordshire Record Office Staffordshire Record Office is the county record office for Staffordshire , England. It
18-933: Is run by Staffordshire County Council , and is located in Eastgate Street, Stafford , behind the William Salt Library . Some records are held at the service's offsite store also in Stafford. It is the principal repository for manuscript records for the county. It is run as a joint service with Stoke-on-Trent as the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service . The archives include parish registers, business and colliery records, enclosure awards and maps, manorial records, transport records, and electoral registers. 52°48′25″N 2°06′50″W / 52.80697°N 2.11377°W / 52.80697; -2.11377 This article about
24-660: The Journal of Field Studies was published in the first issue of Staffordshire Studies journal. The Club's Journal was extant until at least 2000. At 2020, the archive website The North Staffordshire Field Club (1865—2003) and its legacy offers a partial bibliographic record for the Club. From 1893 the society award its Garner Medal , named in honour of the surgeon, writer, and naturalist Robert Garner (1808-1890), author of The Natural History and Antiquities of Staffordshire . Recipients included: This article related to
30-590: The Society . A further extensive history, including that of the various specialist sections, can be found in the Club's special 1916 Jubilee year publication. The annual Transactions were then titled North Staffordshire Field Club, Transactions and Annual Report (to 1960); this later became the North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies (1961 to 1985) when the title ceased. A further New Series of separate Transactions with section reports
36-624: Was produced in booklet form from 1970-2000. A detailed scientific survey of The Birds of Staffordshire was issued as appendices 1-9 to the Transactions and Annual report of the North Staffordshire Field Club (Vol. 64 in 1930, to Vol. 72 in 1938). The records and publications of the Club are held at the Staffordshire Record Office and other libraries. An index to the 1961 to 1985 run of
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